of law and so i'm very concerned about his motives or his previous statements he's made about the mahler investigation but i am confident in spite of that that the mahler investigation i know bob mueller personally i knew him as the f.b.i. director i believe he has the highest integrity of almost any official i know i think he's going to produce inch soon the final judgments of a very long investigation and the country is going to have to take a look at those and every citizen is going to have to decide what he hears she thinks of mahler's conclusions that's assuming of course that the justice department will release all of them to the public and i'm making that assumption when i say that while the democrats in the house now pursue this investigation a lot more aggressively will eat get back into the headlines again and can they use it to seriously damage the president and maybe even start talk of impeachment again . i'd personally believe that it would be a mistake to impeach the president based on what we know today as we're sitting here doing this interview sophie because i haven't he

just don't understand it i mean i love jazz but i i would be terrified to try it more complicated is mahler a little coffee a little he is not a matter of complicated is a motto that is no pop or. you know star and we make it popular because it deserves to be we need a lot of help to promote it. to to give that open community to get people to listen to that and see the b.d.s. and oldest and get more for media to understand that kind of music was going on the stage who was making the solo you know had a woman who was a composer a jungle people don't have an idea but they knows the last rapper you know that's why it's great what you're doing like your duet with prince royce for example you know that's a piece we all know and you play you like well yes stevie wonder's fantastic piece you get together and you make a new version of it and people watch it a lot of them i would watch it because of you but a lot of those would watch it because the guys are really. the best. the be. the be. the be. the bad. i try as much as i can to reach different kind of people you know with different kind of tast

to take a look at those and every citizen is going to have to decide what he hears she thinks of mahler's conclusions that's assuming of course that the justice department will release all of them to the public and i'm making that assumption when i say that while the democrats in the house now pursue this investigation a lot more aggressively will eat get back into the headlines again and can they use it to seriously damage the president and maybe even start talk of impeachment again . i'd personally believe that you it would be a mistake to impeach the president based on what we know today as we're sitting here doing this interview sophie because i haven't heard anything yet that that. puts the president in the middle of a conspiracy to work with the russian government or obstruct justice to the point where i would say the only solution is impeachment and that's understanding that if the democrats move to impeach the president in all likelihood the how the senate which is controlled by the republicans won't convict them so why do we really want to go down the same road we went with presi

any time soon is going to be the first indication of how firm arraign whittaker has taken over the mahler investigation indeed and i'm sure you victoria would both like to be flies on the wall in those car doors of power in the coming weeks unfortunately carby but thank you very much for your time and your insight from new york. for more than four decades japan sterilized about twenty five thousand of its own people who are suspected of having disabilities or mental illnesses after years of silence victims of the controversial program and demanding an apology and also want compensation from the government has more from tokyo. as a boy. was regularly abused by his foster parents because of his polio. in one hundred sixty aged eighteen he was admitted to a psychiatric ward at a hospital in sapporo where he was basin given electric shocks and forcibly sterilized. i remember what the nurse said clearly mr you have schizophrenia you have a disability so people like you should not have children and. lawyer has medical evidence showing his scars are consistent with the sterilization and that he

first step sessions now gone maybe next part is rosenstein and then of course he can actually fire mahler's so maybe that's a trajectory wrong i mean do you see the you see this having a have a direct consequences for moer in the investigation into those possible ties between the trump campaign and russia it could of course again we're just speculating here it will be on president of course i think everyone has a right to find out what's been there trump has said at the press conference today that you know there's absolutely nothing they've been on a witch hunt for why now now democrats actually have the tools to go after it much more effectively they have the subpoena power they can ask people to come and testify before them they can actually have a look at all those documents so maybe this is something we're donald trump and then restrictions running scared say let's cut off our loose ends again just sessions with him behind us was unwilling to recuse himself and maybe that's why he got kind of lose that's right jews from the lawrence stand by we also want to get your take on these midter

firing is just the first step the second one is going to be rosenstein and the third is going to be mahler i think that this clean up and that is what matters i think is going to be a national security implications well but there are the questions of what madison knew at what point but again i think champ is clearing the path to get rid of mother and that's a the core of it yeah but before we move on to the next up i want to ask you mr by the the president knows that i'm going to miracles has made her decision to leave office now and in his eyes she is a lame duck chancellor. is that going to make germany an easier target i don't think so i mean look at the chancellor as the chancellor will be the chancellor and i'm at max dictation if she will serve the full term of a september twenty one you believe that i belief that this is my personal wish and it is it would be good for stability both in germany out in europe and we will see what's going to happen when we have in the c.d.u. our election of a top position where she's not running again but the u.s. president or anybody else for that med

attorney general jeff sessions protesters claim no one can be above the law in fear for the future of mahler's investigation on alleged ties with russia however as artie's came up and found out people on the rally are not fans of the former attorney as well. jeff sessions the u.s. attorney general has just been removed as some new friends liberals and progressives are taking to the streets across the country there are protests and over nine hundred cities it's a major mobilization but was jeff sessions really a friend of progressive's not really jeff sessions that i was a zero rating from the human rights campaign on gay rights a guy who asked the department of the national council of nannies why they were buying so many books on islam the zero tolerance policy means zero humanity and it makes zero sense for his politically motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws back in two thousand and sixteen when jeff sessions was first nominated the liberal organization known as move on dot org issued a petition opposing him they accused him

by the way we might have a government shutdown over whether or not they put a bill out to protect mahler and over the wall and dhaka so that we might not even have a government to to negotiate but you know the democrats have said they're going to go she gave everything that the incoming head of the intelligence committee in the house said every committee is going to investigate trump they're going to want to tax returns they're going to want to see his business dealings jared cushion his business dealings they're going to want to know about the firing of sessions in the firing of komi the hurricane in puerto rico the port there the hurricane really they're going to investigate everything you could think of and i think that's a i mean good for republicans but i think that's a big mistake for democrats we're out of time here we have to leave it there i couldn't agree with you more steve i think that a boy democrats have a way of shooting themselves in the foot if you give them a gun thank you so much jesus a and i am going to make you king for the weekend steve malzberg thank you wolf your

pillars of lava a thousand meters high lit the night above mahler's volcano a fire a towering display that made the danger from the volcano plain for all to see. the mountain has been sending bursts of lava hot rock and ash rushing down its slopes areas to the west have been bombarded with ash and flaming rocks thousands of people have heeded the call to evacuate. to make it there. so i look you have to find a way out as soon as you can and that's it. because when the lava arrives you barely have time to leave. even if you run because it comes down really fast. many people in this area are still traumatized by an eruption earlier this year in june some two hundred people were killed when the mountain exploded sending out flows of ash mud and debris that buried entire villages back then authorities were harshly criticized for not ordering evacuations at this time they're taking no chances. it's likely this won't be the last time people in the area will need to seek safety the wake of all can know is the most active in central america and will remain a hulking danger for the people who

crimes in other serious cases involving terrorism and the like it seems by all observations that mahler's investigations seems to be wrapping up because a lot of the f.b.i. investigators directing quickly interviewing the last witnesses in all remaining investigations the swiss bank of the biggest of japanese carmaker and a british defense giant are among foreign owned firms giving millions of dollars to the republicans and democrats in the midterms that's despite foreign donations being banned parties jenkins explains how it all happened. it's no surprise that meddling was on the mind once again in the run up to the midterms we are receiving information through a variety of public and private sources that indicate that. we should be seriously concerned about people trying to influence the elections in two thousand and eighteen and spending serious money to do it serious money and perhaps those concerns aren't completely unfounded because while the vast majority of the five billion spent on these elections was burned through by the parties themselves a nice chunk of change was generously

eight weeks to go and we don't know what will happen and everybody always says well trump cannot fire mahler and he hasn't done so yet but i mean every time we say cannot do this or that he had none of it i mean it's so unpredictable and there's still a week where the old congress is still in fashion so i'm just hoping we make it to january and then the democratic party can play its role and then we will see checks and both be in place again ok so your you feel confident that we will see checks and balances i am exerting their due functions matthew when you look at the house victory with the democrats. the way you cover european politics and german politics do you think something that's something the german populace and german politicians are profoundly welcoming right now absolutely i think that any check on trumps powers something that europeans of all stripes of all political stripes would welcome because they see him as a loose cannon they see him as dangerous see him as somebody who opposes you know their core values and that is undermining the trans-atlantic relationship which has been

trump cannot fire mahler and he hasn't done so yet but i mean every time we sayay frm cannot do this or that he does it i mean it's so unpredictable and there is still eight weeks where the old congress is doing sessions so. i'm i'm just hoping we make it to generate and then the democratic party can play its role and then we will see checks and balances in place again okay so you're you feel confident that we will see. checks and balances i am exerting look at the house victory with the democrats on the way you cover european politics in german politics do you think something that something the german populace and german politicians are. are profoundly welcoming right now. absolutely i think that any check on trump's power is something that that europeans of of all stripes of all political stripes would welcome because they see him. as a loose cannon they see him as dangerous cm is somebody who opposes you know their core values and that is undermining the trans atlantic relationship which has been. key obviously -- to to european security since the second world war so i think anyth

not to release them in september like he said he would is that he's waiting for the molar report mahler's going to have his findings trump is going to have a trump card. to counter whatever findings that. in the british are furious about it yeah i mean there there is a danger of the u.k. being far more factually implicated in meddling in the us elections like like should have been obvious to anyone and their connections with the steel dossier and this being the basis for launching what would then become the mueller probe basically discrediting all of it so trump it is playing for the best possible time i believe to release these and it will be a fact of lee a refutation not that we have any evidence that mueller has released any indictments or anything that would actually prove low hanging fruit walking what the investigation was supposed to be about which was trumped russia collusion and you know we've got mad for it for back taxes we've got a couple guys lying about things that weren't crimes and and you know that there's nothing serious in there but you know the there is still this hol

exact replica of the statue if the british museum returns the original earlier i spoke to elizabeth mahlerwho's an associate professor of art and art history at colgate university i asked her whether the statue would have been cared for maybe better in a museum or on easter island. the issue of who can take better care of these objects is a little bit of a red herring and there's a little bit of a kind of cultural condescension embedded in that argument i think because the british museum and other museums in major european capitals have always tended to assume that they can take care of objects better than the people who created them but we have to ask ourselves what the standards of care are in the case of these objects from easter island the statues from easter island these are still seen as ancestors by the current population of that island so they would have presumably taken care of these objects of these statues in the ways that best conform to their religious beliefs about them i suspect if you asked inhabitants of easter island today if they think the british museum is taking good c

prosecutor do you think that is coming down soon do you think it will be finished i think i think mahler did a really wise thing that's not surprising he's a pretty wise man and i think he saw me the mess that comey made by opening his mouth before the election i think he stayed off the radar during the final stretch of the midterms i wouldn't be surprised if if in the beginning of the holidays you get something because i don't think muller wants to go on the sunday morning shows and talk about this i think he wants to turn in his report and probably go to tahiti. always great that's great being here thanks for having me read dickens he's the best more politicking after the break. rush and life as. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. russian

sleeve before the white house actually submitted answers written answers to a series of questions that mahler had given to the president and what's interesting here is the timing because they did just submit these answers to the special counsel and now just today michael cohen comes out with this guilty plea it looks like perhaps robert mueller was trying to verify a certain stories that were being told about the timing of certain allegations timing of certain connections to russia these that these alleged real estate deals with russia the hans of the beast the story of tell us more about that. but again this comes out to a question of timing so the heart of this story is that michael cohen the president's former lawyer had been saying yes there had been dealings there had been conversations about building a trump tower in moscow but those plans fizzled out or fell through somehow in january of two thousand and sixteen well before the presidential campaign got underway and even before then candidate from was a what was actually the nominee for president in the republican party and we now know

not be able to end it they should not be able to limit it they should not be able to interfere with mahler going forward and doing what he thinks is the right thing and that will help guide us as we go through this process well sessions' resignation came shortly after a long and fractious press conference on the midterms in which donald trump sparred with several reporters he became particularly angry when challenged by a c.n.n. correspondent. mr president. should be ashamed of itself having you working for them you are a rude terrible person you shouldn't be working for c.n.n. . i think that's on there are very rude person the way you treat sarah huckabee is horrible and the way you treat other people are horrible you shouldn't treat people that way in going to peter going in gyms defense i traveled with him and watched him he's a diligent reporter i'm going to be better than yours either so i understand to be honest i've. got more now from our white house correspondent kimberly how can we can believe that seven looks like quite a press conference that you were there so i'm deaf again to